In the making in spring 2019 / Työn alla keväällä 2019:​

ZAREFزريف​The journey from being a human to becoming a scapegoat - and from there on...

Zaref is a man who walks. He is one of the over 65 million displaced in the world. He might be all of them. His feet have turned into goat’s hooves, because he has been walking for too long. Little by little he is transforming from a human being into a scapegoat, asking where to go next.

Zaref is a theatre performance created by the Finnish-Palestinian S-H-A-Collective, dealing with the challenges of being a refugee. The performance builds on elements of movement, live music, video projections and includes the languages Finnish, Arabic, English and Swedish. Zaref is based on artistic material collected in the Palestinian refugee camp Al-Arroub and on the script The Man Who's Walking (orig. L’Homme qui marche) written by the French author Sandrine Le Mével Hussenet. The performance raises questions such as how to find freedom, peace and a place to be and how to obtain a sense of belonging. These topics are explored through the actor Hazem Al Sharif’s own personal experiences and through his journey from his home being Al-Arroub to becoming Helsinki, Finland.